Sarah Elizabeth “Betty” Thudium, who worked as a nurse in hospitals, schools and medical practices and volunteered for tasks such as laundering linens at Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in northern Baltimore, died of unknown causes Sept. 2 at her home in Towson. She was 76.

Mrs. Thudium, a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native who moved to Maryland with her husband in 2000 to be near their children and grandchildren, had worked at Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson before retiring several years ago. Before GBMC, she worked at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center in the Rosedale area.

At GBMC, she worked in a medical practice and then in quality assurance for the hospital. At Franklin Square, where she started in 2000, she worked at an outpatient practice for an internal medicine residency program.

Sharon Skozilas, a retired nurse and close friend for more than two decades, said she and Mrs. Thudium were hired around the same time to fill new nursing positions at the Franklin Square practice. Mrs. Thudium was practice manager and Ms. Skozilas was clinical coordinator.

“We were a really good team together. It was a very busy setting, very fast-paced,” with residents rotating through the program, said Ms. Skozilas, who now lives in Pennsylvania. “Betty was … very energetic, very compassionate and caring … with the patients, with the staff and with the physicians.”

“We all have a job description as to what we do in our particular setting as a nurse, and she went…